Opposing campaigners have made their final pitches over changing the Australia’s constitution to acknowledge a place for Indigenous Australians on the eve of the nation’s first referendum in a generation.
‘I never thought, never doubted that I was going to get better’: Light the Night hero excited to inspire othersAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shows his support for a yes vote during a visit to Adelaide, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Advocates for and against a referendum that would acknowledge Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution campaigned for a final day on the eve of the first such ballot in Australia in a generation.
Indigenous Australians account for only 3.8% of Australia’s population. But they die on average eight years younger than the wider population, have a suicide rate twice that of the national average and suffer from diseases in the remote Outback that have been eradicated from other wealthy countries. Opposition leader Peter Dutton, whose conservative party opposes the Voice, said polling showing declining support for the referendum over the past year was evidence Albanese failed to convince voters of the benefits of the Voice.
Thorpe is among so-called progressive “no” campaigners who argue an Indigenous committee with no power of veto over legislation is not a sufficiently radical change. “Yes” campaigner Kyam Maher, an Indigenous man who is South Australia state’s attorney general, said the question he was most often asked by thousands of voters was what result Indigenous Australians wanted.
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